Pay TV: Tuesday, January 15

Annabel Ross

THIS is just vile. Abby Lee Miller, owner of the eponymous Pittsburgh dance studios, spends the first few minutes berating her charges, aged 10 and under, for their lacklustre performances, calling them ''boring'' and ''lifeless''. So much so that their next group dance will be performed as zombies because ''that's what they look like out there on stage''. The dance moms clearly have no issues with the tough love espoused by Miller, seemingly concerned only that her take-no-prisoners attitude brings out the best dancing in their children. ''You either make a fool of yourself or you win - it's up to you,'' Miller barks. The way she pits the girls against their mothers is just as shocking. ''I don't want any momager ruining you,'' she says to one dancer who wants to take voice lessons. Pity the poor children with these women as role models.

The Hotel Inspector, LifeStyle, 9.30pm

HOTELIER and straight-shooter Alex Polizzi is in Eastbourne at the Mansion Lions hotel, which is run by the suave Sheikh Abid Gulzar, who describes the hotel as ''rich and good-looking, just like myself''. He dreams of turning his three-star establishment into a four-star hotel, something of a challenge given the Mansion Lions is the lowest-ranking Eastbourne hotel on the TripAdvisor website. The gaudily dressed Gulzar is convinced his low ranking is due to people having it in for him, but Polizzi is having none of it. A trip to the town's only four-star hotel helps her demonstrate to Gulzar that his ambitions are overly lofty, and together they reach a compromise. It's unclear whether it was Polizzi's tips or the show's publicity that helped the Mansion Lions jump eight places on TripAdvisor since this episode aired in Britain.

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Enough Rope, Bio, 8.30pm

Classic episode of Andrew Denton chat show focusing on the band Crowded House.

Law & Order, 111 Hits, 8.30pm

Briscoe and Green are called to investigate the death of an executive shot in his apartment.